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Back pain after antibiotics
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Most often, the cause of this symptom is the stretching of muscles and ligaments as a result of unsuccessful actions or an unusual load. However, back pain after various activities can be a sign of dangerous diseases, manifested after a considerable physical strain.
Treatment for many diseases involves the taking of antibacterial drugs, however, some patients complain of back pain after the end of the course of treatment or even at the very beginning after some appointments of the prescribed medication.
Such pain can be caused by different causes, which are not always associated with taking antibiotics. Perhaps the back hurts on another occasion, and just coincided.
To determine the cause of the pain syndrome, you need to see a doctor who prescribed treatment. Antibacterial agents may well cause back pain, primarily by disrupting kidney function. He will carry out a check-up, assign the necessary tests. To reveal a medicinal nephropathy is simple on a symptomatology it is impossible.
Specialists consider antibiotics of aminoglycosides (Gentamycin, Neomycin, Streptomycin and others) to be more aggressive to the kidneys. And their combination with polymyxins, cephalosporins, some diuretics cause side effects from the urinary tract in about a third of patients.
Also, antibiotics of the cephalosporin series themselves catalyze the development of renal failure (Cefazolin, Cephalexim, Cefuroxime).
Much depends on the condition of the kidneys of the patient before the course of antibiotic therapy. If they already and so did not work in full force, the probability of side effects increases.
Kidneys perform excretory function in the body, passing through itself the bulk of the substances that enter it. Many drugs can disrupt their work - antibiotics of other groups, sulfonamide drugs, diuretics, cytotoxic drugs and others. Therefore, medication can be treated only on the instructions of a doctor, and if the back pain occurs during the treatment or after it, it is necessary to inform him about it and find out what causes the pain. Expect that, interrupting the course of reception, you quickly get rid of the pain is not worth it. Perhaps, of course, it will, but the side effects of taking antibiotics (without which you can not always do without) can be very serious. For example, the antibiotics of the aminoglycoside group are disastrous for proximal tubules of the kidneys, in which there is a reabsorption of 2/3 of the liquid that has entered the body, 100% of glucose and amino acids, and 4/5 of the bicarbonates and phosphates that have passed through filtration.
Self-treatment of drug nephropathy can lead to further complications from both the kidneys and the underlying disease for which medications have been prescribed. And self-medication with antibiotics is completely unacceptable.
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